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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210871640" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Stu <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210871640">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:46)</a>:</h4>
<p>Hey,<br>
In the last 15 hours the user <code>paulajaime2703</code> opened 7 spam issues with no content.<br>
I have no idea how you would handle cases like this.<br>
I just wanted to inform you here.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aissue+author%3Apaulajaime2703+">here</a> are the issues</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210872484" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> lzutao <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210872484">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:53)</a>:</h4>
<p>github staffs once said they're happy to ban users like this. So infra devs could report them.<br>
Or at least block them out of rust-lang organization.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210872689" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210872689">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:54)</a>:</h4>
<p>I thought anyone could flag things</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210872770" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Stu <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210872770">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:55)</a>:</h4>
<p>I can open a report and see what happens</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210872920" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Eh2406 <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210872920">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:56)</a>:</h4>
<p>We can email <a href="mailto:rust-mods@rust-lang.org">rust-mods@rust-lang.org</a> for help with it.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210872928" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210872928">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:56)</a>:</h4>
<p>I have also, which probably helps to have multiple.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210872946" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210872946">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:56)</a>:</h4>
<p>I'm not worried about our mods yet.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210872979" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210872979">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:56)</a>:</h4>
<p>Github will probably do a better job.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873019" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Hameer Abbasi <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873019">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:56)</a>:</h4>
<p>I could be wrong, but this particular user seems to just not know how to use GitHub rather than being actively malicious.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873077" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873077">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:57)</a>:</h4>
<p>Perhaps, but they haven't <em>communicated</em> yet.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873086" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873086">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:57)</a>:</h4>
<p>Over 15 hours</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873181" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> lzutao <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873181">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:58)</a>:</h4>
<p>I told them to stop, but they don't explain or ask for help: <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/77053#issuecomment-696724831">https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/77053#issuecomment-696724831</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873239" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Stu <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873239">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:58)</a>:</h4>
<p>We can just report and see what Github does, otherwise, someone can block him from the org</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873249" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Eh2406 <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873249">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:58)</a>:</h4>
<p>And if you look at their user profile they have not done anything else.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873303" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873303">(Sep 22 2020 at 13:59)</a>:</h4>
<p>I <em>can</em> block them, but that's the kind of thing I would wait until something more malicious happens, and would definitely involve the mods with.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873512" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873512">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:00)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention silent" data-user-id="120179">Eh2406</span> <a href="#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam/near/210873249">said</a>:</p>
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<p>And if you look at their user profile they have not done anything else.</p>
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<p>Done anything public, at least.</p>
<p>This is actually what makes me think that it's a bot or something. Your only interaction on GitHub is opening a bunch of duplicate issues?</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873576" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873576">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:00)</a>:</h4>
<p>But if anyone wants to do their homework: <a href="https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;edition=2018&amp;gist=be73c9c6ff67f18da4848292749da82a">https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&amp;mode=debug&amp;edition=2018&amp;gist=be73c9c6ff67f18da4848292749da82a</a></p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873581" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Philipp Korber <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873581">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:00)</a>:</h4>
<p>Looks like some automated tool gone bad, or testing some bot.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873696" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> lzutao <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873696">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:01)</a>:</h4>
<p>then just report it for github handle.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210873806" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210873806">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:02)</a>:</h4>
<p>One thing that's interesting is that they used the rarely-used "put this playground as a github issue" feature</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210874081" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Philipp Korber <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210874081">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:04)</a>:</h4>
<p>... and they try to use a malformed C++ program in the rust playground ? Really strange.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210874420" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Philipp Korber <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210874420">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:06)</a>:</h4>
<p>I have to correct myself, this looks like a new student thinking play.rust is some form of C++ editor or similar which has poor english skills and therefore doesn't notice the problem.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210874616" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210874616">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:07)</a>:</h4>
<p>Amusingly, that's how <em>I</em> started learning Rust. I literally renamed a <code>foo.cxx</code> file to <code>foo.rs</code> and ran <code>rustc foo.rs</code> and edited until it compiled.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210874785" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jonas Schievink  [he/him] <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210874785">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:08)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention silent" data-user-id="116155">Jake Goulding</span> <a href="#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam/near/210873806">said</a>:</p>
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<p>One thing that's interesting is that they used the rarely-used "put this playground as a github issue" feature</p>
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<p>Oh wow, didn't know this was a thing. Are people using this? (for real reports, I mean)</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210874837" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> bjorn3 <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210874837">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:09)</a>:</h4>
<p>I have used it several times.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210875121" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jake Goulding <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210875121">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:11)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention silent" data-user-id="116155">Jake Goulding</span> <a href="#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam/near/210873303">said</a>:</p>
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<p>I <em>can</em> block them</p>
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<p>I take this back. GitHub was telling me I can block them personally, but not for rust-lang. I'm rather relieved I don't have the ability to do that, in fact.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210875289" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jonas Schievink  [he/him] <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210875289">(Sep 22 2020 at 14:12)</a>:</h4>
<p>If you block someone personally, they will be blocked from all organizations you are an owner of</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210883516" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> DPC <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210883516">(Sep 22 2020 at 15:05)</a>:</h4>
<p>i don't think there's enough justify them being a bot, i guess we can just delete the issues and move on</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210932750" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Noah Lev <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210932750">(Sep 22 2020 at 21:20)</a>:</h4>
<p>It looks like they deleted their account or GitHub banned them because they don't have a user page anymore.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/210933354" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> Jubilee <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#210933354">(Sep 22 2020 at 21:26)</a>:</h4>
<p>that code looks like it was literally a homework assignment.</p>



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<h4><a href="https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github%20Issue%20spam/near/211359144" class="zl"><img src="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/assets/img/zulip.svg" alt="view this post on Zulip" style="width:20px;height:20px;"></a> RalfJ <a href="https://rust-lang.github.io/zulip_archive/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam.html#211359144">(Sep 26 2020 at 13:03)</a>:</h4>
<p><span class="user-mention silent" data-user-id="116155">Jake Goulding</span> <a href="#narrow/stream/122651-general/topic/Github.20Issue.20spam/near/210873806">said</a>:</p>
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<p>One thing that's interesting is that they used the rarely-used "put this playground as a github issue" feature</p>
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<p>I had no idea this feature even existed^^</p>



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